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I wish I could help you out short of a journey to eternity. And perhaps I'll take that before very long," he added gaily; "I smoke too many cigarettes. Cheer up, Shiela, and send me a few thousand for Easter." He rose, gracefully as always, picked up the book from where it lay tumbled in the netting of the hammock, glanced casually through a page or two.
Constance drew her into her arms; the girl clung to her, head hidden on her breast. "Shiela, Shiela," she murmured, "you can always come to me.
Inside the pavilion she saw Hamil and Shiela Cardross, already dressed, watching the lively occupants of the swimming-pool; and she exchanged a handshake with the former and a formal nod with the latter. "Garret, your aunt is worrying because somebody told her that there are snakes in the district where you are at work. Come in some evening and reassure her."
He laughed and sauntered off into the house as Hamil's horse was brought around; and Hamil, traversing the terrace, mounted under a running fire of badinage from Shiela and Cecile who had just come from the tennis-courts to attempt some hated embroidery for the charity fair then impending. So he rode away to his duties in the forest, leaving a placid sewing-circle on the terrace.
Shall I send her downstairs?" "Yes; it's better." So Shiela went away and returned shortly saying that her maid had gone; and then, with a questioning gesture to her husband, she seated herself by the open window and looked out into the sunshine, waiting for him to speak. "Do you know," he said abruptly, "what saved Cardross, Carrick & Co. from going to the wall?" "What?"
For a moment her mind was only a confused void, then the routine instinct of self-control asserted itself; she made the effort required of her, groping for composure and self-command. "He is better, you say?" "Lansdale said there was a change which might be slightly favourable.... I wish I could say more than that, Shiela." "But he is better, then?" pitifully persistent.
"An idea of mine," she suggested, glancing up from the writing-pad on her knees, "is to trim a dozen alligators with electric lights and turn them loose in our lake. There's current enough in the canal to keep the lights going, isn't there, Mr. Hamil? Incandescent alligators would make Luna Park look like a bog full of fireflies " "O Shiela, let him alone," protested Mrs. Carrick.
She was rattling on almost feverishly, never looking at him, restless in her saddle, shifting bridle, adjusting stirrups, gun-case, knotting and reknotting her neckerchief, all with that desperate attempt at composure which betrays the courage that summons it. "Shiela, dear!" "What!" she said, startled into flushed surprise. "Look at me."
Lady Tressilvain cornered Shiela and badgered her and stared at her until she dared not lift her hot face or open her lips lest the pent resentment escape; Portlaw smoked a pipe a sure indication of smouldering wrath; Malcourt, at a desk, blew clouds of smoke from his cigarette and smilingly continued writing to his attorney: "This is the general idea for the document, and it's up to you to fix it up and make it legal, and have it ready for me when I come to town.
With one hand Captain Blaise held the chart so Shiela still could read it; with the other he reached through the skylight opening for his long glass. After a long look I saw that he did not resume his narrative. By that I knew that the stranger was troubling him. Shiela came below to see me. The traces of tears were in her eyes. "It's a large ship to the northward," she said.
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